China's SCS Strategy Thread

[Thecore]

This is what I am saying about the short sighted goal of the Philippines. If it's not China they are going to war for, it's another southeast Asian nation so that their Euro/American masters can keep the region in a state that they are in. From my view the Filipinos have been stress tested to the point they can't even protest to the point missing one day of work means they are further buried in debt.

The Philippines is not even internally stable. All it takes is one grandstanding judge or legislator in Manila to try to reverse autonomy for the Bangsamoro Autonomous region and you will have renewed civil conflict along the borders in that region of Mindanao Island. In addition you'll get further resentment from the other poles of that Island chain, Davao and Cebu to call for autonomy/federalism. It's all been simmering under the surface for decades. Let's be honest, the "nation" of the Philippines is an artificial creation from western colonialism, in this case, Spain and the US. Just like how "India" was created by the British. Anything that was imposed by a power from the other side of the globe will eventually fracture by itself from all the inherent internal contradictions.